#on internet

on the internet age

stephanie rosenbloom eating alone \\ julia foote ghosts of hte future: the smart home is a haunted house \\ brendan mackie why can't we be friends \\ hayes brown the end times are here, and i am at target \\ brendan mackie why can't we be friends \\ charlie warzel the internet is flat

1. It’s apparently in the fucking M-rvel universe??? Supposedly tied in with Spiderman somehow? What

2., Of the many reasons I appreciate wikipedia here is one: The “internet meme” section of the Morbius page is very well-cited. Someone spent a not-insignificant amount of effort linking these articles properly so people in the future can properly understandf morbin’ time.

(The mentioned part of the Wiki article, which has seven citations in two lines of text.)

Good morning / timezone I have a "I found a genuinely baffling take and must now share it for science" Further context, this was the first reply on a post about Alan Turing

and to be fair, the actual writing is much better & has a more coherent argument than the title implies:

"When stans call themselves “stans,” it’s a wryly self-deprecating label that implies plenty of self-awareness on the fans’ parts about the tricky relationship they have with their idols. It also predicts the slippery slope that can result when fans’ investment in their faves gets too intense. Increasingly, however, there are fewer self-aware stopgaps in modern celebrity fandom, and, as January 6 taught us, even fewer in politics.